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Crystal-on-crystal chips for in situ serial diffraction at room temperature
Ren, Z., Ayhan, M., Bandara, S., Bowatte, K., Kumarapperuma, I., Gunawardana, S., Shin, H., Wang, C., Zeng, X., and Yang, X. Crystal-on-crystal chips for in situ serial diffraction at room temperature. Lab Chip 18, 2246–2256 (2018)
Pink-beam serial crystallography
Meents, A., Wiedorn, M. O., Srajer, V., Henning, R., Sarrou, I., Bergtholdt, J., Barthelmess, M., Reinke, P. Y. A., Dierksmeyer, D., Tolstikova, A., Schaible, S., Messerschmidt, M., Ogata, C. M., Kissick, D. J., Taft, M. H., Manstein, D. J., Lieske, J., Oberthuer, D., Fischetti, R. F., and Chapman, H. N. Pink-beam serial crystallography. Nature Communications 8, 1281 (2017)
Combining ns temperature-jump pump with X-ray pulse probe: study of structural dynamics in insulin
Rimmerman, D., Leshchev, D., Hsu, D. J., Hong, J., Kosheleva, I., and Chen, L. X. Direct Observation of Insulin Association Dynamics with Time-Resolved X-ray Scattering. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 4413–4418 (2017)
New Technique Shocks Proteins Into Action
Hekstra, D. R., White, K. I., Socolich, M. A., Henning, R. W., Šrajer, V., and Ranganathan, R. (2016) Electric-field-stimulated protein mechanics. Nature 540, 400–405
Serial crystallography enhanced by graphene
Sui, S., Wang, Y., Kolewe, K., Srajer, V., Henning, R., Schiffman, J. D., Dimitrakopoulos, C., and Perry, S. L. Graphene-Based Microfluidics for Serial Crystallography. Lab Chip. (2016)
Experimental Advance Offers First Glimpse of Biophysics of Vision
Pande et al. Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein. Science 352, 725–729 (2016)